“[Uga] flies first class to all the away games,” Getman explained. “He lives in an air-conditioned doghouse. I don’t think he’s ever been touched by an undergraduate. He certainly hasn’t been walked by an undergraduate. Handsome Dan is a very different kind of mascot. He’s a mascot for the people.”

You can get your daily cute fix by watching Handsome Dan interacting with a crowd at a Master’s Tea and walking around his home in this video Denizet-Lewis took of the mascot while reporting in late 2009: